This sounds pretty exhaustive. We do a lot of outreach through the Centre for Archaeology also, and because we deal mainly with assemblages of domestic animal bones (livestock), I include ageing (and sexing), and metric analysis. I also emphasize preservation (is this included under bone modification?), recovery and sampling and the influence that these have on most aspects of an assemblage. Best wishes, poly
Polydora Baker
Zooarchaeologist
English Heritage
Centre for Archaeology
Fort Cumberland
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Portsmouth
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I am teaching a week-long seminar entitled "Excavation and Analysis of Animal Bone" at the Arkansas Archeological Society's annual field school next month. The field school is geared toward training amateurs in order to have a base of well-trained volunteers to call upon when needed. I have been putting together my syllabus and lecture notes, and planning the lab and field excercises that I plan to include. The class meets for five days in four-hour blocks. My class includes interested amateurs and college students, some of whom are archaeology majors. These seminars are very intensive (I've taken a few!) My goals are to present as much useful information as possible in the time allotted without either overwhelming or boring my students. I would be interested to know what topics the members of this list consider important for such a group to be familiar with. The topics on my tentative list so far include:
What can be learned from animal bone?
The vertebrate skeleton: anatomy and terminology
The deer (I include this as an example of vertebrate anatomy and it is the animal they are most likely to encounter at any archaeological site in the region from any time period)
Systematics
Mammals
Birds
Fish, Reptiles, and Amphibians
Invertebrates
Data Recording and Quantification
Excavation Techniques and Lab Processing
Taphonomy
Bone modification
Faunal material at historic sites
An overview of zooarchaeological research in Arkansas
I'd be interested in any suggestions anyone has to offer.
Dawn Novak
Doctoral Student
Environmental Dynamics Program
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, Arkansas
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